The Gov't owns a good amount of assets, such as land, out west. Privatize it to US citizens to help increase the amount of private assets citizens have. A quasi-land run, adapted to the new millenium. There are numerous ways to do it that could excite "disenfranchised" portions of the population, use a carrot and stick approach to get members of the generational working class/poor to change their self destructive culture in order to recieve "free" acreage--if you marry the mother of your kids, get a trade/skill/degree, stay clean, speak and write like an average person, ect. Ie, embrace the characteristics that would have kept you from being poor in the first place, but an asset, "The American Dream", directly dangled in front of you if you pursue those traits *now*.
Other land can be sold to US corporations at a discount, use that money to help pay off the debt, and give tax breaks if they take a chance and hire either A) unskilled workers and train them or B) American college graduates. Basically depopulate the over-urbanized cities and create new towns on formerly Gov't land, towns created by encouraging good "culture" among those groups that have lacked it. I've thought about this for a while, but I won't bore people with a bunch of specifics.
And of course, privatize social security, which would put more citizens involved in the U.S. Stock Market. And have a tax code that rewards savings and asset growth--especially for middle class and upper middle class families--instead of punishing it.
Just what would be the purpose of selling BLM lands to the citizens? What do you expect to result from this?
Right now we are under a storm trooper attack against the small farmer and the small rancher. The people that buy these lands are going to make a living in what trades, what industries? Lumbering perhaps? Sorry that trade is done for also.
I am interested in your answer.